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Meyers Lake, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Canton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44708. The Survey maps it on the Canton West quadrangle. 724 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Meyers Lake within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

Meyers Lake grew from 569 to 724 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010569
2020724+155 (+27%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Meyers Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Meyers Lake, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the 1881 county history

968,817 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Canton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Canton Township - 968,817 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 420 shown

Museums hold 420 specimens collected within 10 miles of Meyers Lake between 1836 and 1975: 363 Animalia, 46 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1907Bruce Fink
Specimen of Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872Catocala flebilis Grote, 18721940not recordedNavarre
Specimen of Pemphigus Hartig, 1839Pemphigus Hartig, 18391948C. MohrMassillon
A photograph of the species Carex granularis, not of this specimenCarex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.1836Collector unknownCanton
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1836Collector unknownCanton
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Archilochus colubris, not of this specimenArchilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1885not recordedCanton
A photograph of the species Melospiza georgiana, not of this specimenMelospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Bulley, R. HCanton

All 420 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Meyers Lake: 9 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canton Ohio Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Canton, OhioIronProducer
Sme QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stark County MinesClayProducer
American Sand & Gravel Plant #2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beldon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beldon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Allied Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Central Allied Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Diano Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

2 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Meyers Lake in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMeyers Lake$60,000A trained spotter and media relayed reports of damage on the north side of Canton. At least 20 trees damaged with several snapped in half, some topped off and a few uprooted. Some of the damage was in Crystal Park. Large branches were also down on a car on on 19th St NW. Fishers Grocery store was damaged and a picnic shelter was completely destroyed at Nimishillen Park.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMeyers Lake-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts with the storm to be around 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Stark County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lakeview Terrace0.2 miles17
Lakeside Heights0.6 miles17
Lakeview Heights0.8 miles17
Harter Heights0.8 miles17
Edmeyer Park0.9 miles17
Whipple Heights0.9 miles17
Avondale1.0 miles17
Ridgedale1.0 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Meyers LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2474402The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048971. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.